- Enjoy this video from the seventh annual international Hit Like a Girl drumming contest for female percussionists. Yoyoka Soma, eight years old, plays Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times” with determination, polka-dotted socks, and a big grin.
- We welcome the start of summer.
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
—Henry James - The annual ugliest dog contest, as described in the New York Times’ article “Congratulations? Zsa Zsa an English Bulldog Wins the Ugliest Dog Contest,” is “a celebration of the dogs, many of which were rescued from shelters or puppy mills, and is intended to promote pet adoption.”
